Governor John Bel Edwards announces a Texas-based company will open a techonology center in New Orleans that will employ 350 workers. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says Accruent says is a software and information technology firm that focuses on digital integration in real estate…
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Accruent is already hiring and they plan to be fully staffed by 2020.

The state is returning two-point-three million dollars from its Unclaimed Property program to a north Louisiana resident….
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That’s State Treasurer John Schroder who says this is the largest amoung ever returned to one person in the program’s history. The average is claim is around 900-dollars.

Department of Children and Family Services Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says the budget signed by the governor for next fiscal year doesn’t contain enough money for the state to operate the federally-funded food stamps program in 2019. Walters says if additional funding is not raised in next week’s special session, one-thousand staff members who help distribute food stamps will be laid off in January and some 45-hundred businesses that service food stamp recipients will also feel the impact….
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Louisiana distributes one-point-four billion dollars in federal food stamps every year to low-income households.

The National Hurricane Center tells us they are monitoring a tropical disturbance in the Caribbean Seat that has low chance of tropical formation this week. The weather system is approaching the Gulf of Mexico, but at the moment seems like a bigger concern for Mexico than the United States.